KONRAD BERCOVICI

KONRAD BERCOVICI (June 22, 1882-December 27, 1960)

He was born in Brăila, Romania.  He lived in Paris while young and studied in French schools.  He later emigrated to Canada, contributed to Keneder odler (Canadian eagle, when it was edited by Ruvn Breinin), wrote articles, and excelled at interviews.  He was also an organ musician, and he wrote about music for Avrom Reyzen’s Dos naye land (The new land) in New York.  He contributed to Minikes yorbukh (Minikes’s annual) and Amerikaner (American), in which he published works concerned with Jewish folksong and the plastic arts.  He later wrote in English as well.  He was the author of a number of English-language books, in the main pulp-sensationalist works, some concerned with Jewish life.  He lived in Ridgewood, Connecticut.

Sources: Zalmen Reyzen, Leksikon, vol. 1 (Vilna, 1931); Who Is Who in World Jewry (New York, 1955); Y. Rabinovitsh, “Yudish-literarishe tetikeyt in kanade” (Yiddish literary activity in Canada,” Yoyvl-bukh, suvenir oysgabe lekoved dem yubiley fun hundert yor idisher glaykhbarekhtigung in kanade un finf un tsvantsig yor keneder odler (Jubilee volume, souvenir publication honoring the jubilee of the centenary of equal rights for Jews in Canada and the twenty-fifty anniversary of Keneder odler) (Montreal, 1932); Dr. A. Koralnik, “Der tsigeyner-yid” (The Gypsy-Jew), Tog (New York) (March 18, 1931).